{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chota S"],"funding":["European Research Council"],"pagination":["15889"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6203856"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["8(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Recent research indicates that attentional stimulus selection could be a rhythmic process. In monkey, neurons in V4 and IT exhibit rhythmic spiking activity in the theta range in response to a stimulus. When two stimuli are presented together, the rhythmic neuronal responses to each occur in anti-phase, a result indicative of competitive interactions. In addition, it was recently demonstrated that these alternating oscillations in monkey V4 modulate the speed of saccadic responses to a target flashed on one of the two competing stimuli. Here, we replicate a similar behavioral task in humans (7 participants, each performed 4000 trials) and report a pattern of results consistent with the monkey findings: saccadic response times fluctuate in the theta range (6 Hz), with opposite phase for tar"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pubmed_title":["Rhythmic fluctuations of saccadic reaction time arising from visual competition."],"pmcid":["PMC6203856"],"funding_grant_id":["614244","937938"],"pubmed_authors":["Chota S","Schmid MC","VanRullen R","Crouzet SM","Boyer L","Kienitz R","Luo C"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Rhythmic fluctuations of saccadic reaction time arising from visual competition.","description":"Recent research indicates that attentional stimulus selection could be a rhythmic process. In monkey, neurons in V4 and IT exhibit rhythmic spiking activity in the theta range in response to a stimulus. When two stimuli are presented together, the rhythmic neuronal responses to each occur in anti-phase, a result indicative of competitive interactions. In addition, it was recently demonstrated that these alternating oscillations in monkey V4 modulate the speed of saccadic responses to a target flashed on one of the two competing stimuli. Here, we replicate a similar behavioral task in humans (7 participants, each performed 4000 trials) and report a pattern of results consistent with the monkey findings: saccadic response times fluctuate in the theta range (6 Hz), with opposite phase for tar","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Oct","modification":"2025-04-22T16:06:12.264Z","creation":"2019-03-27T00:05:32Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6203856","cross_references":{"pubmed":["30367113"],"doi":["10.1038/s41598-018-34252-7"]}}